Cutting animal agriculture buys time to get off fossil fuels: study
Story Date: 2/7/2022

 

Source: THE HILL, 2/2/22


Eliminating animal agriculture over the next 15 years would effectively stop global warming in its tracks — largely halting the increase of greenhouse gases for the next 30 years, according to a recent study in PLOS Climate. The largest contributor to that decrease in heating would be a massive expansion in prairie, forest and grassland as the global economy converts away from land-dependent practices like cattle-raising, said co-author Patrick Brown, a Stanford biochemistry professor, according to a statement.

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